My 87 300D has had jackport rust which has really worsened recently. I had planned to get the bodywork done, for whatever ungodly price it will run me, after I finished the brakes and flex discs so I can drive it to the body shop. The frame is basically solid, and the jack supports looked fine. I went to jack up the rear today to do the brakes and as it was going up (using the hand crank) kind of heard a loud noise and felt the car shift downward. I didn't see anything noticeably wrong ... i.e., nothing punched through anything or broke off. But then I looked closely, and it appears the entire jack support had shifted down and outward. Has this happened to anyone else? What the &%*^ happened? I can see up inside that hole and the jack support looks normal as does the frame it attaches to. But something is wrong. I can't jack up the car now, and I'm so frustrated I can't even express it. I should never have let the car get like this. This car is my favorite thing in the world and now everything is going wrong with it.


I don't really have to do the rear brakes ... I did the fronts and the pedal is squishy, but if a bleed fixes that, should I just drive this to a body shop? Or is this not the panic situation I'm turning it into?
Sorry to whine. My non-car life isn't going too well right now and I'd really like my "friend" back.

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1987 300D, arctic white/palomino--314,000 miles
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